“However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more than himself; that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is a robin with a broken wing, unable to fly. Pain is having it crawl into my wounds and nest inside… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the… — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“For a second i was just a kid, a kid who had lived all his life in the same tiny town. Just… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in… — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they… — Nate Saint Copy Share Image
Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I touch his cheek, see my hand shake, and quickly pull it back. He grabs my wrist, places my palm back against… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“I can't help but think of the years and years of awful I’ve had. My years of horror and sadness just seem… — Sarah Ann Walker Copy Share Image
I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Promise me," she gasped, fighting to speak through the agony that gripped her. "Anything, little one." "Don't… don't forget me…” — Trisha Baker Copy Share Image
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry… — Rukmini Devi Arundale Copy Share Image
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
But when the other end of the line picked up, it was his voicemail that answered, not the man himself. "I know… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
